Editing Pope Gregory XII (section)

{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from 1406 to 1415}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
|type= Pope
|honorific-prefix= [[List of popes|Pope]]
|name=Gregory XII
|title = [[Bishop of Rome]]
|image = Joos Van Wassenhove e Pedro Berruguete – San Gregorio – Galleria Nazionale delle Marche.jpg
|caption = Portrait of Gregory XII by [[Justus van Gent|van Gent]] and [[Pedro Berruguete|Berruguete]] <small>({{circa|1476}}, [[Ducal Palace, Urbino|Ducal Palace]], [[Urbino]])</small>
|birth_name=Angelo Corraro (or Corario)<ref name=eb9/>
|church = [[Catholic Church]]
|term_start=30 November 1406
|term_end=4 July 1415
|predecessor=[[Innocent VII]]
|successor=[[Martin V]]
|opposed= ''Avignon claimant:''{{plainlist|style=margin-bottom:0.5em|
*[[Antipope Benedict XIII|Benedict XIII]]}}''Pisan claimants:'' {{plainlist|
*[[Antipope Alexander V|Alexander V]]
*[[Antipope John XXIII|John XXIII]]}}
|ordination =
|ordinated_by =
|consecration = 1390
|consecrated_by =
|cardinal = 12 June 1405
|created_cardinal_by = [[Innocent VII]]
|coat_of_arms=C o a Gregorio XII.svg
|birth_date={{circa|1327}}
|birth_place= [[Venice]], [[Republic of Venice]]
|death_date=18 October 1417 (age 89-90)
|death_place=[[Recanati]], [[Marche]], [[Papal States]]
|previous_post={{Indented plainlist|
*Bishop of Castello (1380–1390)
*Bishop of the Island of Negrepont (1387–1390)
*[[Latin Patriarch of Constantinople|Titular Patriarch of Constantinople]] (1390–1405)
*[[San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio, Rome|Cardinal-Priest of San Marco]] (1405–1406)
*[[Bishop of Macerata-Tolentino]] (1415–1417)
*Apostolic Administrator of Constantinople (1406–1409)
*[[Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina]] (1415–1417)}}
|other=Gregory}}
{{Infobox popestyles
|image            = File: C o a Gregorio XII.svg
|dipstyle         = [[His Holiness]]
|offstyle         = Your Holiness
|relstyle         = Holy Father
|deathstyle       = None
}}
'''Pope Gregory XII''' ({{langx|la|Gregorius XII}}; {{langx|it|Gregorio XII}}; {{circa|lk=no|1327}}&nbsp;– 18 October 1417), born '''Angelo Corraro''', '''Corario''',<ref name=eb9>"{{Cite EB9|wstitle=Gregory XII.|volume=11|page=178}}</ref> or '''Correr''',<ref>{{cite dictionary| last=Miranda | first=Salvador | title=Correr, Angelo|dictionary=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church – Biographical Dictionary|year=2022| url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1405.htm#Correr| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115071659/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1405.htm | archive-date=15 January 2018 | url-status=live}}</ref> was head of the [[Catholic Church]] from 30 November 1406 to 4 July 1415. Reigning during the [[Western Schism]], he was opposed by the Avignon claimant [[Antipope Benedict XIII|Benedict XIII]] and the [[Council of Pisa|Pisan]] claimants [[Antipope Alexander V|Alexander V]] and [[Antipope John XXIII|John XXIII]]. Gregory XII wanted to unify the Church and voluntarily resigned in 1415 to end the schism.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Riccoboni|first=Bartolomea|title=Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: the chronicle and necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395–1436|publisher=The University of Chicago Press|year=2000|isbn=0-226-71789-5|location=Chicago & London|pages=60–63}}</ref>